Trasacco v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

On April 29th, 1929, the defendant was engaged in repairing a portion of the Olive Street bridge over its tracks, in New Haven. The bridge runs approximately north and south, with a roadway twenty-nine feet in width in the center, and a walkway seven to eight feet wide on each side. The repair in progress at the time consisted in renewing the planking of the west walkway, at the northerly and southerly entrances of which a plank and red flag had been placed. The old planks of this walkway had been torn up for a considerable distance and, at the time, a space about thirty feet long was open,…